LOUS, Pierre - La Femme et le pantin. With twelve engravings - Lot 531

LOUS, Pierre - La Femme et le pantin. With twelve engravings printed in colors by Jean Virolle. Paris, Kra, 1930. In-8, dark green demichag. with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head. (Attached :) MAETERLINCK, Maurice - La Vie des Abeilles. Engravings by Daragnès. Brussels, Ed. du Nord, 1937. In-8, 283 pp, 4 fig. eng. in two colors, including 7 plates h. t., half-chag. eggplant with corners, smooth spine decorated, mosaic fig. a beehive, cons. cover, gilt head, qqs. letters of the title erased, pet. epid. Ex. num. on Astra vellum. FARRÈRE, Claude - Les Hommes nouveaux. Wood in colors by G. Geo-Fourrier engraved by Aug. Mathieu. Paris, Ed. des Horizons de France, 1928. In-4, front cover, 327 pp. 11 plates, burgundy half leather with corners, spine with nerves, cover gilt. Numbered copy on vellum of Rives. 12 plates h. t. and 40 woodcuts in color. LA FAYETTE, Madame de - The Princess of Cleves. Illustrations by Jeanne Rosoy. Paris, Ed. de la Pléiade, 1929. Gr. in-8, front, 258 pp, qqs. vignettes, 10 plates h. t., half-marble blue with corners, spine with nerves, cover gilt. Numbered copy on vellum of the Marais. MAUPASSANT, Guy de - Five Tales. La Ficelle - La Bête à Maît' Belhomme - Le Petit Fut - Aux Champs - Toine. Etchings by Gaston Nick. Paris, René Kieffer, 1928. In-4, 107 pp, 20 plates, each in three states, dark green bas. mar., large efflorescent medallion pushed to cold on the plates, spine with nerves decorated, cover gilt, rubbed hinges, epid. spine dusted (René Kieffer). One of the 50 numbered copies on Japon (first edition) with three states of the etchings. KIPLING, Rudyard - The Most Beautiful Story in the World. Translated from the English with the author's permission by Louis Fabulet and Robert d'Humière. Accompanied by twenty sketches by Maxime Dethomas. Paris, René Kieffer, 1919. In-4, 92 pp, printed on yellow background, bas. mar. vert bronze faded, cold decoration on the boards (garland surrounding a trireme), spine ribbed and decorated, cover gilt, cracks on the upper hinge, small epidermis, one corner dull (René Kieffer). Printed in all at 550 copies, this one on Arches laid paper. (Set of 6 vols.)